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    And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic / Randy Shilts.

    • Title:And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic / Randy Shilts.
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    • Author/Creator:Shilts, Randy, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : St. Martin's Press, [1987]
      ©1987
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
      AIDS (Disease)--History.
      AIDS (Disease)--Political aspects--United States.
      AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--United States.
    • Medical Subjects: Centers for Disease Control.
      Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history.
      Sociology.
      Public Policy.
      United States.
    • Description:xxiii, 630 pages ; 24 cm
    • Summary:An investigative account of the medical, sexual, and scientific questions surrounding the spread of AIDS across the country.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-613) and index.
    • ISBN:0312009941
      9780312009946
      0312241356
      9780312241353
    • Contents:Acknowledgments
      Dramatis personae
      The bureaucracy
      Prologue
      pt. 1. Behold, a pale horse
      1. The feast of the hearts
      pt. 2. Before : 1980
      2. Glory days
      3. Beaches of the dispossessed
      4. Foreshadowing
      5. Freeze frames
      pt. 3. Paving the road : 1981
      6. Critical mass
      7. Good intentions
      8. The prettiest one
      9. Ambush poppers
      10. Golf courses of science
      11. Bad moon rising
      pt. 4. The gathering darkness : 1982
      12. Enemy time
      13. Patient Zero
      14. Bicentennial memories
      15. Nightsweats
      16. Too much blood
      17. Entropy
      18. Running on empty
      19. Forced feeding
      20. Dirty secrets
      21. Dancing in the dark
      pt. 5. Battle lines : January-June 1983
      22. Let it bleed
      23. Midnight confessions
      24. Denial
      25. Anger
      26. The big enchilada
      27. Turning points
      28. Only the good
      29. Priorities
      30. Meanwhile
      31. AIDSpeak spoken here
      32. Star quality
      pt. 6. Rituals : July-December 1983
      33. Marathons
      34. Just another day
      35. Politics
      36. Science
      37. Public health
      38. Journalism
      39. People
      pt. 7. Lights & tunnels : 1984
      40. Prisoners
      41. Bargaining
      42. The feast of the hearts, part 2
      43. Squeeze play
      44. Traitors
      45. Political science
      46. Downbound train
      47. Republicans and Democrats
      48. Embarrassed
      49. Depression
      50. The war
      pt. 8. The butcher's bill : 1985
      51. Heterosexuals
      52. Exiles
      53. Reckoning
      54. Exposed
      55. Awakening
      56. Acceptance
      57. Endgame
      pt. 9. Epilogue : After
      58. Reunion
      59. The feast of hearts, part 3
      Notes on sources
      Index.
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